Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1887-11-13
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EDITOR HERALD .-lneTe are ~ rev
features in regard to the execution of
the Anarchists that should not be
overlooked. Anarchy means existence
without law. Its effect would be
relapse into barbarism, whereiz might
alone would be right. 1t mearrs aboli-
ton Of all sacredness in person and
property. 1t means if man or body
of men ore strong enough to get what
they want, they may burn, pillage and
ravish ifust as their inclination prompts
them, in order to obtajin and satisfy
that want. 1t means civil war. But
how long would this East. Only until
the Anarchists or Have rests" be-
co7re the Haves," then they would
constitute them 8 law unto them
selves and take precaution to safe
guard and retain whatever they had
obtained by pluader. In other words
qe- introduce the reign of law.
Sir, this Anarchist movement is in
its infancy at present; it is but an
.embryo. What it may develop into
tests entirely upon the full-grown So
cietv OF the day. Neglect proper pre-
cautions, pander to it in any way,
and eventually it will be the subser-
sion and destruction of society. One
first step ] would advise, and that is
the prohibition by law OF the possess
ion and manufacture of dynamite
Mining and other operations that at
present legitimately call for it can be
carried on without it, and although
at, perhaps, in 'reased cost, yet s"ci-
ETY. calls for the sacrifice. Let the
possession and manufacture of dyna-
mite be punis ed with the utmost Sc
verify and let its possession and manu-
ia ture be an objectionable ffense and
the sentence passed unremittable.
If criminals knew that their sentence
once passed could never by President:
or Governor be Cancelled and many.
crime.that now disgraces our society.
would never be committed. Again,
how is it that so much false senti-
ment should gather around these
Anarchists and the murdered and
mutilxted police and their desolate
widows and orphans be forgotten?
The police preach peace, their mis-
sion makes for peace, their lives are
frequently laid down as a sacrifice to
peace and they deserve the best that
the citizens of this best republic can
bestoW.
The Anarchists, on the contrary,
preach war, murder, the absence OF
all law, which means the presence of
all crimes. They wish to obiiterate
i'm man that which distinguishes him
from the brute creation, and they in
the laidst of brute force are met by a
civilized force stron er than them
selves and have to give way, and
theroupon want to pose as martyrs.
they are treated as they preach, as
they propose to treat others only with
this vast difference, that while they
giveNhose they attack and murder no
warming or chance Of escape, the law
they defy and yitEperate has
the magnanimity to give them-erery
opportunity to let every quibbie that
the Ingenuity of lawyers can produce
be presented in their faver. The de-
faint, attitude these mWderers pre-
served to the last is an evidence that
had they preserved their lives ,Tthose
lives would still have been devoted to
the destruction of our glorious 'requb-
lie and the dragging OF our ttars and
stripes in the mud. If anyoHe has
any doubt as to his duty in these crit
ical times, let him ask himselswh
the father of his country would ;kave
done under existing circumstances,
and act according to what every re-
spectacle citizen must know whatthis
reply weuld have been.
ANGLO AMERICAN.
Pasadena, November 18th, 1887.